Year 1 went to the dinosaur park as part of their topic ‘Dinosaur Planet.’ The children enjoyed meeting different life-sized dinosaurs and learning all about them. They also got to explore some real animals during the visit. All of Year 1 had an amazing day!
The award-winning, bestselling children’s author, Billy Bob Buttons, visited school on Tuesday 22nd May 2018. He is the author of sixteen very popular children’s books including Felicity Brady and the Wizard’s Bookshop, the bestselling Muffin Monster, Tiffany Sparrow Spook Slayer, The Cool Kids Book Prize winner, WIDE AWAKE, and the UK People’s Book Prize winner and bestseller, I think I Murdered Miss which last year sold over 100,000 in the UK alone and won the 2014 UK People’s Book Prize. Every year, he meets with approximately 150,000 primary school children to deliver his popular literacy workshops and on his visit to us, he worked with the Gold Award reading winners to read and deliver workshops with a focus on Planning a Story, Adventure Writing and Characters.
In addition to an assembly given by him at the start of the day, children also had the opportunity to meet Mr. Buttons and buy a signed and dedicated book. A fun day was had by all with the handy hints and tips provided to budding writers.
In celebration of the Royal Wedding, Staniland Academy had their own party in the playground on Friday 18th May 2018. The children dressed up in their fancy clothes and had a Royal Picnic. Party food and drink shared with each other in this celebration of British values. 
On Thursday 24th May 2018, Year 6 travelled to Warner Brothers Studio to explore the wonder and amazement of the filming of Harry Potter. The tour started with the ‘birthday girl’ opening the doors to the great hall where the tables were set out like in the film. Leading out from the hall, the tour continued where the children collected stamps from different sections and tried to find a range of snitches for their passport. The children got to explore the dormitories, the hidden forest and lots of special effects. They even had a chance to sit on a broomstick, use magic to lift the broomstick or cast spells using the wands.
Year 1 children had a wow day!! They celebrated the start of their new topic Bright Lights, Big City where they had a Royal Tea party. The children wore their best clothes and enjoyed crown making, making cucumber sandwiches, cakes, singing the national anthem and learning how to bow and curtsy.
Lincolnshire Police welcomed some of its youngest recruits today (Friday) with the official launch of the Boston Mini Police with guests from a number of units – including Lincolnshire Police Interceptor Dan Brigginshaw.
The pilot project for Lincolnshire sees 12 youngsters each from Carlton and Staniland given their own uniforms and taught about the roles of the various police units, as well as learning how to make their communities safer.
The Year 2 cohort spent the day at Haven High having a fun filled activity day.
We would like to thank you for all your donations for our Harvest Festival.
We had a lovely assembly singing and celebrating the Harvest.
Last week in school we took part in an organised charity event for the NSPCC.
Each class had to read and record as many pages as they could.
In total we read a mammoth 4876 pages.
We have raised over £600!
Thank you so much for your donations and sponsor forms.
